Preface

TheJava Management Extensions (JMX) Technology
Tutorialprovides examples of how to use the main features of
the JMX technology that is provided with the Java Platform,
Standard Edition .

Before You Read This Book

The Java Management
Extensions (JMX) Technology Tutorial demonstrates the concepts
and technology that are introduced in the Java Management Extensions (JMX) Technology
Overview. You should, therefore, read the overview before
attempting to work through this tutorial. To make full use of the
information in this tutorial, you should be familiar with the
following protocols and specifications:

Remote Method
Invocation (RMI)

Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

Service Location Protocol (SLP)

JiniTM Network Technology

Java Naming and Directory InterfaceTM (JNDI) API

Java Secure Socket Extension (JSSE)

Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS)

How This Book Is Organized

This tutorial providesexamples in broad
categories, presented in the following chapters.

Related Documentation

About This Tutorial

As previously stated, this tutorial demonstrates
some of the concepts that are described in the Java Management Extensions (JMX) Technology
Overview. This tutorial is intended to be read in order, from
beginning to end, working through the examples as you go. Actions
you perform at the beginning of the tutorial might be required
parts of subsequent examples. Consequently, starting mid-way
through the tutorial might cause you to skip actions required by
certain examples.

Where you are required to perform a task, the
instructions are presented in bold text and marked with an action
number; sub-tasks are marked with a lower-case letter, as shown in
the following example:

Perform a task.

Description of how to perform that task.

Perform a sub-task.

Description of how to perform that
sub-task.

Perform another task.

And so on

Typographic Conventions

Typeface

Meaning

Examples

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and
directories; on-screen computer output